Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Analytical Chemistry journal rankings 2016
39 ranked journals · Subfield in Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry has 39 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2015 to 0.46, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.78. The top three are Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, and Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Chemistry (6)
39 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Applied Spectroscopy ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.41Q1 | 3.44 1.04 down from 2015 | 96 | 12% | — | ||
2Journal of Food Composition and AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.03Q1 | 3.02 0.29 down from 2015 | 398 | 16% | $3,450 | ||
3Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.58Q1 | 2.68 0.05 down from 2015 | 555 | 19% | $3,970 | ||
4Journal of ChemometricsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.13Q1 | 2.04 0.27 up from 2015 | 238 | 20% | $3,710 | ||
5Food Analytical MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.06Q1 | 2.08 0.21 up from 2015 | 796 | 11% | $2,490 | ||
6Analytical Chemistry InsightsOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.86Q1 | 0.89 0.58 down from 2015 | 30 | 90% | — | ||
7ISRN Analytical ChemistryOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.83Q1 | 0.60 0.30 down from 2015 | 49 | — | — | ||
8Journal of Near Infrared SpectroscopySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.83Q1 | 1.21 0.17 down from 2015 | 145 | 24% | $4,150 | ||
9Bulletin of Faculty of Pharmacy Cairo University OAEgypts Presidential Specialized Council for Education and Scientific Research · Egypt | 0.78Q1 | 1.51 0.49 up from 2015 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
10ChromatographyOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.78Q1 | 1.48 0.60 up from 2015 | 56 | — | $378 | ||
11Vibrational SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.75Q2 | 1.76 0.02 down from 2015 | 301 | 20% | $3,760 | ||
12Reviews in Analytical ChemistryOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.72Q2 | 1.48 0.04 up from 2015 | 51 | 96% | $1,187 | ||
13Analytical Chemistry ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.64Q2 | 1.27 0.03 down from 2015 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
14Journal of Chromatographic ScienceOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.62Q2 | 0.96 0.07 up from 2015 | 601 | 33% | $4,822 | ||
15American Journal of Analytical ChemistryOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.60Q2 | 0.99 0.03 up from 2015 | 374 | 100% | — | ||
16Journal of AOAC InternationalOxford University Press · United States | 0.56Q2 | 0.92 0.14 down from 2015 | 652 | 5% | $1,868 | ||
17Analytical LettersTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.55Q2 | 1.14 0.03 up from 2015 | 732 | 6% | — | ||
18Journal of SpectroscopyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.50Q2 | 1.01 0.17 up from 2015 | 244 | 100% | $1,630 | ||
19Atomic SpectroscopyAtomic Spectroscopy Press Limited · Hong Kong SAR China | 0.48Q2 | 0.70 0.38 down from 2015 | 105 | 86% | — | ||
20International Journal of SpectroscopyHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.46Q2 | 0.58 0.48 down from 2015 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
21International Journal of Chemical and Analytical ScienceElsevier BV · India | 0.44Q3 | —no 2015 value | 38 | — | — | ||
22Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related TechnologiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.81 0.06 up from 2015 | 689 | 8% | — | ||
23Spectroscopy LettersTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.69 0.17 down from 2015 | 327 | 13% | — | ||
24Journal of Analytical ChemistryPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.34Q3 | 0.74 0.01 down from 2015 | 663 | 0% | — | ||
25Chromatography Research InternationalOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.32Q3 | 0.70 0.13 up from 2015 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
26Journal of Planar Chromatography – Modern TLCSpringer Science+Business Media · Hungary | 0.32Q3 | 0.64 0.07 down from 2015 | 230 | 5% | $3,090 | ||
27Chronicles of young scientistsMedknow · India | 0.31Q3 | 0.27 0.27 down from 2015 | 39 | — | — | ||
28Current Pharmaceutical AnalysisBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.30Q3 | 0.56 0.07 up from 2015 | 180 | 4% | $2,100 | ||
29International Journal of Advances in Scientific ResearchOABharati Biomedical and Advance Research Centre · India | 0.28Q3 | 0.47 0.30 down from 2015 | 98 | 100% | — | ||
30Acta ChromatographicaOAUniversity of Silesia in Katowice · Poland | 0.28Q3 | 0.46 0.09 up from 2015 | 174 | 100% | — | ||
31NIR newsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.24Q4 | 0.40 0.03 up from 2015 | 181 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
32Analytical Chemistry LettersTaylor & Francis | 0.24Q4 | 0.42 0.05 up from 2015 | 113 | 1% | — | ||
33Pharmaceutica Analytica ActaOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.21Q4 | 0.42 0.19 down from 2015 | 697 | 24% | — | ||
34Current ChromatographyNetherlands | 0.19Q4 | 0.30 0.65 down from 2015 | 34 | 6% | — | ||
35Pharmaceutical MethodsIndia | 0.18Q4 | 0.28 0.20 down from 2015 | 49 | 46% | — | ||
| 0.14Q4 | 0.23 0.04 down from 2015 | 44 | 100% | — | |||
37International journal of advanced research in chemical sciencesOAPublisher not listed | 0.11Q4 | 0.22 0.11 up from 2015 | 116 | 100% | — | ||
38Metallurgical AnalysisCentral Iron & Steel Research Institute | 0.01Q4 | 0.00no change | 238 | — | — | ||
| 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 44 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Chemistry, with Analytical Chemistry highlighted.
- Organic Chemistry140
- Analytical Chemistry39
- Spectroscopy31
- Inorganic Chemistry20
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry4
- Electrochemistry1
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
13 additional Analytical Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 39
- Window papers (baseline)
- 29,260 +7.3% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.458 -1.3% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 15 | 16 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 29 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 39 | 33 | 33 | 30 | 35 | 35 | 36 | 36 | 34 | 34 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 9,448 | 10,314 | 10,966 | 11,758 | 12,507 | 13,694 | 15,068 | 16,458 | 17,955 | 19,418 | 21,090 | 22,985 | 25,359 | 27,276 | 29,185 | 29,636 | 29,260 | 27,408 | 26,298 | 25,985 | 26,770 | 27,535 | 27,786 | 27,629 | 27,358 | 29,011 | |
| Median OJR | 0.55 | 0.536 | 0.64 | 0.543 | 0.677 | 0.49 | 0.413 | 0.576 | 0.57 | 0.582 | 0.683 | 0.62 | 0.447 | 0.464 | 0.539 | 0.52 | 0.458 | 0.408 | 0.459 | 0.36 | 0.37 | 0.410 | 0.42 | 0.48 | 0.450 | 0.535 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.